Search suspended for Springboro hiker missing in Arizona mountains

NOGALES, Ariz. – Authorities in southern Arizona have suspended an unsuccessful weeklong search for an Ohio man who a sheriff says is now presumed dead after getting lost while hiking in rugged terrain in the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson.

Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said Tuesday that searchers did everything they could to first try to rescue Harold “Joe” Smallwood and then locate and recover the body of the 82-year-old Springboro, Ohio, resident who had been staying in Tucson.